Was there anything like a towel in ancient times? What's your name?

There was a special textile name "pa" in the pre-Qin period. Its specific meaning is "handkerchief", which people use to wipe sweat and face.

The official name of handkerchief comes from the Tang Dynasty.

Women in ancient China often used handkerchiefs as decorations or symbols.

In the most familiar classic Dream of Red Mansions, handkerchiefs have become tokens for young men and women to express their feelings. When Daiyu burned the manuscript, in addition to the poems expressing her mind, there was also the old silk scarf that Baoyu gave her, which showed the weight of silk scarf in Daiyu's heart.

Extended data:

The change from handkerchief to handkerchief began in the Han Dynasty.

A towel is different from a handkerchief. Towels appear as male products. When men are engaged in labor and other activities, the sweating parts are not limited to the face, but also the back, chest and other parts. Small square towels can no longer meet the requirements, and it is not convenient for working hands to grasp towels and handkerchiefs, so there are long towels sewn with thick cloth, which can be worn over the shoulders at will and hung around the neck or waist when not in use.

The towel hanging around the neck can also be used as a cushion cloth for the shoulder pole or the rim when the shoulder is pushed, which can buffer the pressure and reduce the friction of labor tools on the skin. This kind of towel has been very popular since Qin and Han Dynasties. The "big belt" around Wu Sheng's waist that we saw on the stage of Peking Opera is the artistic deformation of towels.

And let towel pile ring become the embryonic form of towel, which began to appear as early as the Western Han Dynasty. The "velvet loop brocade" unearthed from the No.1 Han tomb in Mawangdui, Changsha is the earliest discovered velvet fabric.

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